Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to give an introduction to the special issue by providing background on the ETHICOMP conference series and a discussion of its role in the academic debate on ethics and computing. ...

The role of the academic, both inside and beyond the University, is under scrutiny across global higher education. In-part this is tied to the neoliberal agenda for universities, which is underpinned by a discourse of ...

The paper describes an experimental study from forty-eight subjects about the acceptable thermal conditions under three ventilation strategies with six exhaust configurations, including mixing ventilation (MV), displacement ...

The ability to influence electricity demand from domestic and small business consumers so that it can be matched to intermittent renewable generation and distribution network constraints is a key capability of a smart grid. ...

The work reported in this paper addresses the challenge of the efficient and accurate defuzzification of discretised interval type-2 fuzzy sets. The exhaustive method of defuzzification for type-2 fuzzy sets is extremely ...